[PHP] Question about php.ini file
Hi all: I've learned, much to my pleasure, that I can place a php.ini file in the root directory of my shared domain to allow some customization of the php settings. However, when I do this, I keep getting weird results. Some of the values that I change appear as I've asked them to be. Some appear to not change at all. And some have been changing to what appears to be default values for php. I'm wondering a few things here. First, my computer is Windows-based, but the server is Linux-based. Do I need to somehow convert the Windows text file line termination characters to their Linux variants? If so, how? Is it possible that I'm trying to change values beyond some upper limit which is causing php to use the default value? The main values that I'm trying to change are: post_max_size upload_max_filesize memory_limit max_execution_time max_input_time If anyone knows of upper limits for these, I'd appreciate learning about them. As always, any help you can send my way will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jon
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file
You must take in count that before php even gets to receive something, it all passes through the HTTP server (apache or something). for most of these settings there are equivalents in the config file of the server that you need to change accordingly. this might be the cause of the weird results. for example, if your limit for uploaded files is 10M in php but the server is set to accept max 5M, 5M will be the limit Jon Westcot wrote: Hi all: I've learned, much to my pleasure, that I can place a php.ini file in the root directory of my shared domain to allow some customization of the php settings. However, when I do this, I keep getting weird results. Some of the values that I change appear as I've asked them to be. Some appear to not change at all. And some have been changing to what appears to be default values for php. I'm wondering a few things here. First, my computer is Windows-based, but the server is Linux-based. Do I need to somehow convert the Windows text file line termination characters to their Linux variants? If so, how? Is it possible that I'm trying to change values beyond some upper limit which is causing php to use the default value? The main values that I'm trying to change are: post_max_size upload_max_filesize memory_limit max_execution_time max_input_time If anyone knows of upper limits for these, I'd appreciate learning about them. As always, any help you can send my way will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file
Hi Cristian: Thanks for the replies. In this case, what I've been noticing is that most of the values have gone DOWN (i.e., gotten smaller) after I placed my own php.ini file in place. For example, upload_max_filesize was 8M before I placed my file, but, afterwards, it was 2M! I'm trying to increase this size, not decrease it. Could it be the line-ending characters that are causing the problem? Could PHP be seeing the new file but not realizing how to process it, which would cause the values to flop over to their defaults? Thanks, Jon - Original Message - You must take in count that before php even gets to receive something, it all passes through the HTTP server (apache or something). for most of these settings there are equivalents in the config file of the server that you need to change accordingly. this might be the cause of the weird results. for example, if your limit for uploaded files is 10M in php but the server is set to accept max 5M, 5M will be the limit Jon Westcot wrote: Hi all: I've learned, much to my pleasure, that I can place a php.ini file in the root directory of my shared domain to allow some customization of the php settings. However, when I do this, I keep getting weird results. Some of the values that I change appear as I've asked them to be. Some appear to not change at all. And some have been changing to what appears to be default values for php. I'm wondering a few things here. First, my computer is Windows-based, but the server is Linux-based. Do I need to somehow convert the Windows text file line termination characters to their Linux variants? If so, how? Is it possible that I'm trying to change values beyond some upper limit which is causing php to use the default value? The main values that I'm trying to change are: post_max_size upload_max_filesize memory_limit max_execution_time max_input_time If anyone knows of upper limits for these, I'd appreciate learning about them. As always, any help you can send my way will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file
On 11/4/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cristian: Thanks for the replies. In this case, what I've been noticing is that most of the values have gone DOWN (i.e., gotten smaller) after I placed my own php.ini file in place. For example, upload_max_filesize was 8M before I placed my file, but, afterwards, it was 2M! I'm trying to increase this size, not decrease it. Could it be the line-ending characters that are causing the problem? Could PHP be seeing the new file but not realizing how to process it, which would cause the values to flop over to their defaults? do you have ssh access to the server? i recommend you start out by creating the simplest file you can by editing it directly on the linux server, via vim or w/e. then using a phpinfo() script, you should see your overridden value in the left column (those are for the locally overridden values). some other things to note are; 1. apache must be properly configured to allow the .htaccess overrides. 2. you cant override all the values in php.ini; see the documentation regarding which ones can be overriden and where here is an article regarding the process, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_php.ini_overrides_w/_.htaccess -nathan
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file
Hi Nathan: I'm not certain if I have all of the items you've mentioned, but I'll look into it. And thanks for the link; I'll check that out, too. Jon - Original Message - From: Nathan Nobbe To: Jon Westcot Cc: PHP General Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file On 11/4/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cristian: Thanks for the replies. In this case, what I've been noticing is that most of the values have gone DOWN (i.e., gotten smaller) after I placed my own php.ini file in place. For example, upload_max_filesize was 8M before I placed my file, but, afterwards, it was 2M! I'm trying to increase this size, not decrease it. Could it be the line-ending characters that are causing the problem? Could PHP be seeing the new file but not realizing how to process it, which would cause the values to flop over to their defaults? do you have ssh access to the server? i recommend you start out by creating the simplest file you can by editing it directly on the linux server, via vim or w/e. then using a phpinfo() script, you should see your overridden value in the left column (those are for the locally overridden values). some other things to note are; 1.. apache must be properly configured to allow the .htaccess overrides. 2.. you cant override all the values in php.ini; see the documentation regarding which ones can be overriden and where here is an article regarding the process, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_php.ini_overrides_w/_.htaccess -nathan
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file
Hi Nathan: Another quick question regarding the use of the .htaccess file: If I'm trying to set something like post_max_size, which takes a shorthand value such as 16M in place of the full value, will using the php_value type of statement also accept the shorthand value, or do I need to place in the full value? Thanks again; this solution may be exactly what we need! Jon - Original Message - From: Nathan Nobbe To: Jon Westcot Cc: PHP General Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file On 11/4/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cristian: Thanks for the replies. In this case, what I've been noticing is that most of the values have gone DOWN (i.e., gotten smaller) after I placed my own php.ini file in place. For example, upload_max_filesize was 8M before I placed my file, but, afterwards, it was 2M! I'm trying to increase this size, not decrease it. Could it be the line-ending characters that are causing the problem? Could PHP be seeing the new file but not realizing how to process it, which would cause the values to flop over to their defaults? do you have ssh access to the server? i recommend you start out by creating the simplest file you can by editing it directly on the linux server, via vim or w/e. then using a phpinfo() script, you should see your overridden value in the left column (those are for the locally overridden values). some other things to note are; 1.. apache must be properly configured to allow the .htaccess overrides. 2.. you cant override all the values in php.ini; see the documentation regarding which ones can be overriden and where here is an article regarding the process, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_php.ini_overrides_w/_.htaccess -nathan
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file
Jon Westcot wrote: Hi Nathan: Another quick question regarding the use of the .htaccess file: If I'm trying to set something like post_max_size, which takes a shorthand value such as 16M in place of the full value, will using the php_value type of statement also accept the shorthand value, or do I need to place in the full value? yes, valid values for ini settings are the same regardless of where you set them (.ini, apache conf, php script) Thanks again; this solution may be exactly what we need! Jon - Original Message - From: Nathan Nobbe To: Jon Westcot Cc: PHP General Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini file On 11/4/07, Jon Westcot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cristian: Thanks for the replies. In this case, what I've been noticing is that most of the values have gone DOWN (i.e., gotten smaller) after I placed my own php.ini file in place. For example, upload_max_filesize was 8M before I placed my file, but, afterwards, it was 2M! I'm trying to increase this size, not decrease it. Could it be the line-ending characters that are causing the problem? Could PHP be seeing the new file but not realizing how to process it, which would cause the values to flop over to their defaults? do you have ssh access to the server? i recommend you start out by creating the simplest file you can by editing it directly on the linux server, via vim or w/e. then using a phpinfo() script, you should see your overridden value in the left column (those are for the locally overridden values). some other things to note are; 1.. apache must be properly configured to allow the .htaccess overrides. 2.. you cant override all the values in php.ini; see the documentation regarding which ones can be overriden and where here is an article regarding the process, http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_php.ini_overrides_w/_.htaccess -nathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Question about php.ini
Hi, I hope we are all doing well today I'm very new to php. Here are some basic info about my server that I am running: Mac OS X 10.3.7 PHP 4.3.10 MySQL 4.0.18 Apache 1.3.33 What I want to do is host a forum on my web page. I can't seem to get it set up, and I notice that I do not have a php.ini file in my /etc directory (This is the Configuration File Path). However, I do have a php.ini.default in the same directory. I seem to have two options: 1.) rename the php.ini.default to plain php.ini and see if that resolves it. However, I'm not sure what kind of tests can I perform to see that it is working properly? 2.) or I can follow this tutorial at: http://www.dmcinsights.com/phpmysql/phpini.php; which teaches me how to make my own php.ini file. Is there any other recommendations/comments that you all have? Thanks so much in advance everyone, I'm new to this mailing list. -- S. Wong -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Question about php.ini
[snip] 1.) rename the php.ini.default to plain php.ini and see if that resolves it. However, I'm not sure what kind of tests can I perform to see that it is working properly? [/snip] How about just making a copy of the file and testing it? Have you run phpinfo() yet? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Question about php.ini
[snip] Yup, I have tried making a copy of it. I'm just not exactly sure how to test it? I ran phpinfo() , and it runs even without a php.ini. [/snip] Change something in the configuation file that you know you can run a test on, like safe mode status, then restart Apache and conduct the test. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Question about php.ini
Stephen Wong wrote: I'm very new to php. Here are some basic info about my server that I am running: Mac OS X 10.3.7 PHP 4.3.10 MySQL 4.0.18 Apache 1.3.33 What I want to do is host a forum on my web page. I can't seem to get it set up, and I notice that I do not have a php.ini file in my /etc directory (This is the Configuration File Path). However, I do have a php.ini.default in the same directory. You don't HAVE to have a php.ini for PHP to run. PHP will simply use its default values if you have no php.ini file for it to load. And your forum software should not require it, in my opinion, but I suppose it's theoretically possible that it does. More likely, it requires specific settings to work, which is also bad. I don't *WANT* to change my php.ini on my whole site for their software to work. Often you can get around this by using an .htaccess file (just create one) in the forum directory to set whatever they need. I seem to have two options: 1.) rename the php.ini.default to plain php.ini and see if that resolves it. However, I'm not sure what kind of tests can I perform to see that it is working properly? http://php.net/phpinfo will tell you which php.ini file is loaded (or if none is loaded) and will tell you everything that is being affected by that file. If you copy php.ini.default to php.ini, it should be EXACTLY the same as it is now -- the .default settings match what PHP does if no file is there. But, of course, after you copy the file there, you can change it, and then it will make a difference. 2.) or I can follow this tutorial at: http://www.dmcinsights.com/phpmysql/phpini.php; which teaches me how to make my own php.ini file. It's probably better to stick with the php.ini file that came with your VERSION of PHP. That might be the php.ini.default you see, or maybe that .default is some old left-over thing from a previous version... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Question about php.ini
The phpinfo() will display either the directory in which it expects to find the php.ini file (if the php.ini does not exist) or it will display the full path, including the filename (if the php.ini DOES exist where expected). -Original Message- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 12:53 PM To: Stephen Wong Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Question about php.ini [snip] Yup, I have tried making a copy of it. I'm just not exactly sure how to test it? I ran phpinfo() , and it runs even without a php.ini. [/snip] Change something in the configuation file that you know you can run a test on, like safe mode status, then restart Apache and conduct the test. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Question about php.ini and dynamic extensions
Hello, if I want to be able to load dynamic extensions via php, do I just go to php.ini and under ;; ; Dynamic Extensions ; ;; Do I just add the extensions I need? extension=msql.so extension=gd.so extension=xml.so making sure they are uncommented ? And then just save the file and reload apache? In the php page, would dl(gd.so); activate it? Is this how to do it? Thanks
